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Post ramatic stripe syndrome.

Funny title huh? Let's talk about dreams. Not the ones you dream at night, but the ones you dream about during the day. I'm 38 now and I think it a fair assesment to say that we never stop dreaming. Yes Sigmund Freud our dreams come from our ego and are shaped by our childhood, but why do we dream? We dream because it makes like worth living. We are given only one life, and we all have the desire for transcendence. Are dreams bad? Let me try to define by what I am refering to as a dream. A goal of unusual proportions, sometimes in proportion to our talent, sometimes not, and the ability to pursue and realize our potential in an exceptional way. Don't trample on my dreams, because some of them are coming true. God gives us our dreams, and for some he gives the talents and the opportunities to realize them. You have to dream first in order for any chance at your dreams coming true. Only some people are ready to realize them. There is no garantee that if you dream something that it will actually happen. God ordaines the lives of his children, but he doesn't promise them that everything will come true.

Obedience leads to blessing, and God chooses (I don't know how) to bless some people and other people differently, He is not a respecter of persons. We all have dreams, but some of us choose to live out not delusions, but our God ordained lives in a way that our dreams become our reality. It's not majic, it's virtue. Christian virtue is the key that unlocks our potential, despite our limitations and opens up a potential, ordained by God, of possibilities that can transform our lives, despite our failures. Nothing is for sure, the only thing that is garanteed is failure and the freedom to pursue and dream of the things that give us meaning in life.

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